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Miranda McKearney OBE CEO, The Reading Agency

The National Reading Offer aims to create a vibrant reading service that celebrates creativity, reading, and key outcomes. By working together more efficiently, the offer combats cuts and provides literacy and reading opportunities to every community. It includes programs like the Summer Reading Challenge, StoryLab, Chatterbooks, Six Book Challenge, and the MyVoice innovation strand.

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Miranda McKearney OBE CEO, The Reading Agency

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  1. Miranda McKearney OBECEO, The Reading Agency miranda.mckearney@readingagency.org.uk

  2. National Reading Offer “This age of austerity will end; we have to think about the future. Let’s not implement cuts in a way that ends up with a uniformly grey, dull offer to the public, without any real social impact. We must hang on to the sparkle in the new look reading service we’re creating. There is evidence of a huge public demand for our reading groups, author events, rhyme times, reading challenges, festivals. The new strategy we’re proposing is about us all putting our collective energy into a few really big things to keep the sparkle going.” Tony Durcan, Chair of the Books and Reading Group, Society of Chief Librarians

  3. National Reading Offer • Builds on vision work done with ASCEL and SCL in 2004, used as basis for NYR membership campaign • Celebrating creativity, reading, links to key outcomes • Captures sector’s ambition to get literacy and reading opportunities to every community • Drive forward with development of new look reading service – turning libraries into vibrant community hubs

  4. Reading Offer • Combatting cuts by working more efficiently together as a network – fewer, bigger things • Plug in and play best practice tools • Maintain and develop partners’ investment • National marketing and advocacy • New shared impact/golden thread tools • Staff knowledge and skills • Innovation: digital, health, involving the public PILOT: April 2012 EMBED: 2013-15

  5. Alignment • Local government improvement agenda • LGG’s culture and sport improvement framework (logic model approach) • Arts Council’s Future Library programme

  6. Arts and Libraries

  7. Logic Model framework

  8. Shared Toolbox

  9. Sign-up Pilot 2012 • Definition of reading offer • Using LGG outcomes framework • Nationally brokered partnerships • Strategic partnership with SCL and TRA • Shared toolbox • Community of practice for innovation: digital and public involvement

  10. Key Outcomes • Learning, skills, employability • Health, well being, quality of life • Strong and safe communities (including participation) • Value for money

  11. Shared Calendar

  12. Key National Offer Programmes:Summer Reading Challenge • Business model: more affordable • National partnerships: Olympics, CBBC, Mumsnet, WI • Local partnerships: schools, arts organisations, opportunities with ACE • Addressing capacity: volunteering roll out, support teams • Targeted family work • Enhanced advocacy drive

  13. StoryLab • Adults have forgotten how to tell tales to children. StoryLab kids have to save their city by boosting its imagination • StoryLab: fantastical laboratory where you can read, collect, share, create, transmit and broadcast stories   • Questing narrative/ three stages. 4 characters helped by lab cat Aesop • Sports links via characters’ sports interests • Core pack item – 3D StoryLab box   • Website – digital version of StoryLab • StoryLabs in libraries, plus storytelling chairs and cloaks • Exploring Quentin Blake international launch event - StoryLab Global Link Up • Author master classes • Museums links through Stories of the World  

  14. Summer Reading Challenge 2012:Illustrator Steve May

  15. Key National Offer Programmes:Chatterbooks • Focus on working with disadvantaged children in combination with Summer Reading Challenge • Support resources for young volunteers • ‘Off the shelf’ activities – refreshed termly • Special resources and activities to use in delivery of National Offer (e.g. for WBD) • New starter packs, materials, training and promotions • Welsh Chatterbooks/Clonclyfrau • For more information contact tricia.kings@readingagency.org.uk

  16. Key National Offer Programmes:Six Book Challenge • Targeted family approach: using Six Book Challenge alongside Summer Reading Challenge • Families leaflet for SRC materials • Working with BookTrust to recruit parents and carers • Increasingly used with young people aged 16-24: 17% registered through libraries, hundreds more through colleges and YOIs • For more information contact genevieve.clarke@readingagency.org.uk

  17. Innovation Strand in National Offer:MyVoice • People power pilot (Big Lottery funded) – young people shaping reading hubs and library activities • Training on offer for all authorities: • Training for library staff on working with young people • Training for young people (inc. team work, events planning, volunteering) • Digital skills training for library staff and young people • Contact sue.jones@readingagency.org.uk for more information

  18. Need your input on: • Summer Reading Challenge advocacy • Sector advocacy: library openings, centenaries, refurbishments • Training needs • Reading Groups for Everyone

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